[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#425881: libboost-python-dev: please support both python 2.4 and 2.5

[Uwe Hermann]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:00:26PM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote:
> Package: libboost-python-dev
> Version: 1.34.0-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> can you support both python versions, please?

Yes, please.

At least one of the packages I maintain (democracyplayer) fails
miserably to build and run without a libboost-python-dev for Python 2.4.

I _did_ try my best to make it work with 2.5 but to no avail. Upstream
doesn't know any other solution, either. And, to make it worse, large
parts of the (build-time and run-time) dependencies of democracyplayer
are not yet available as 2.5 versions, which makes democracyplayer
unusable and unbuildable at the moment (since a few weeks now).

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430659#17
for a summary of my investigations so far.

I have now verified that rebuilding libboost-python-dev with Python 2.4
does indeed fix democracyplayer.

Please consider providing a 2.4 version of libboost-python again, otherwise
democracyplayer will remain dead and unusable in Debian, I'm afraid.


Thanks, Uwe.
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